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L00M TEMPLE Filed Feb. 26, 1934 ifi VENTOR,

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' Draper Corporation, Hopeiialeg notation of Maine Application February 26, 1934, Serial No. 712,957 2 Claims. (01. 139-301) The present invention pertains to loom temples threads W are woven into cloth C which feeds and has more particular reference to positioning forwardly toward the breast beam in the usual adjustments therefor. manner. The fell line of the cloth is illustrated The conventional temple includes a housing at F.

mounted on a stand on the breast beam of the A slide member 2 is secured to the breast beam 5 loom. The housing is provided with a guideway as by bolts 3, 3 and a temple stand 4 is bolted for receiving and guiding the temple bar, which to the slide as by means of a bolt 5. A housing bar carries at its rearward end. the laterally 6, provided with a guideway '7, is secured to the projecting temple head. stand as by means of screws 8, 8. The slide, stand The temple head and bar are reciprocated each and housing shown are of conventional design 10 beat-up of the lay, and the continued reciproand may be modified as. desired.

cation wears the bar and guideway, thus permit- A temple bar 9 is guided within the guideway ting the temple head to be pulled out of proper and is urged rearwardly by the cgnventional position. spring (not shown) within the housing. The

I find that the temple bar and guideway usualtemple bar is formed in two pieces, the rear piece 15 ly wear in such manner as to permit the temple 10 of which carries the conventional laterally exhead to twist about the longitudinal axis of the tending temple head 11. The head 11 may be bar and also to be pulled laterally. provided with a thread cutting device 12 and is It is the principal object of the invention to also provided with a depending heel 13 through provide a novel and improved means for 'adjustwhich it is reciprocated. Proper operation of the 20 ing the temple head to compensate for wear. temple requires that the rear face 14 of the head A further object is to provide a single adjustbe substantially parallel with the fell F and that ing means which provides for both vertical and the head be in theproper vertical relation to the horizontal adjustment of the temple head. plane of the woven cloth;

In attainment of the objects mentioned, I have Repeated reciprocation of the temple wears the 25 provided a two piece temple bar the pieces of bar 9 and guideway '7 in such manner as to perwhich are provided respectively with complemit the inner end 15 of the head 11 to drop down mentary serrated flanges. The flanges are sebelow its proper level and also to swing forwardcured together by bolts which pass through slots ly out of parallelism with the fell. It is to the in one of the flanges to permit angular adjustprovision of adjusting means for restoring the 30 ment of the temple head. The angular adjusttemple head to proper position that my invention ment serves to raise the extreme inner end of the pertains. temple head and restore it to the level of the In order that the temple head may be adjusted cloth. to proper position I make the temple bar in two In the specific embodiment herein disclosed pieces as aforesaid and provide the desired ad- 35 the flanges are formed at an angle to the axis of justment in the connecting means for the two the temple bar whereby angular adjustment of the pieces. Such connecting means preferably comtemple head serves also to move the inner end of prises a pair of complementary serrated flanges the head rearwardly to bring the head into par- 16, 1'7 formed, respectively, on the sections of the allelism with the fell of the cloth. By this means, temple bar. The flanges may be of any config 40 a single adjustment is made to correct both veruration, they being shown as circular, and the tical and horizontal misalignment of the temple serrations 18 preferably extend radially 0f the head. flanges.

The preferred embodiment of my invention is The flange 16 is apertured to receive fastening illustrated on the accompanying drawing, of bolts 19, 19 and the flange 17 is slotted at 20, 20 45 which: to receive the same bolts, the slots being arcuate Fig. 1 is a plan view of the right hand temple to permit rotative adjustment of the flange 17 in position on the loom; and temple head. It will be noted that the flanges Fig. 2 is a side view of the temple, the breast are not positioned normal to the axis of the bar beam appearing in section; and 9 but at an acute angle thereto. In other words, 50

Fig. 3 is asection taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2. the connection between the two pieces of the bar The loom to which my improved temple has permits rotative adjustment of the temple head been applied is not illustrated, except for a secabout an axis which is in the vertical plane of tion of the breast beam 1. The breast beam exthe forward piece of the bar but at an acute angle tends across the front of the loom, and the warp thereto. Consequently, rotation of the temple 55 head counterclockwise, Fig. 3, will move the inner end 15 thereof upwardly and rearwardly. By judiciously selecting the proper angle for the flanges this one adjustment serves to compensate for wear of the temple bar and guideway as above mentioned.

Having fully disclosed the preferred embodiment of my invention, I claim:

1. In a loom temple, a housing having a guideway therein, a temple bar mounted in said guideway for reciprocation longitudinally thereof, said bar being formed of two separate pieces, a laterally extending temple head carried by the rear piece of said bar, and an adjustable connection for the pieces of said bar, said connection providing rotative adjustment of the said head about an axis which is in the vertical plane of the forward piece of said bar but at an acute angle thereto.

2. In a loom temple, a housing having a guideway therein, a temple bar mounted in said guideway for reciprocation longitudinally thereof, said bar being formed of two separate pieces, a laterally extending temple head carried by the rear piece of said bar, complementary serrated flanges on said pieces, and means for adjustably securing said flanges together, said flanges being positioned at an acute angle to the longitudinal axis of the forward piece of said bar.

JOHN W. JONES. 

